Integration coaching

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Integration Coaching

At Santuario Huishtin, we care about your experience and the long term effects of working with Amazonian plant medicines. Working with transformative plant teachers such as ayahuasca can be catalytic and can instigate profound changes in your life. In many ways, the work you do after you return home, when your mind is the most sensitive, is the most important and longest lasting. Few people realize how powerful the effects of plants medicines are–or the potential detrimental effects they can have when you are not attentive after you return home. Integration of plant medicine experiences is the most important phase in your medicine work. Such things as taking careful attention to diet, to grounding your energy and providing a nurturing healing space are some important first considerations. Emotional stress and physical toxins in food and environment can dramatically work against your healing progress and even make you feel worse than before. Often when people return home after retreat, the feeling is elation and optimism. They feel full of energy and wanting to change the world. These are wonderful feelings. However these feelings can quickly wear off again if steps are not taken to make productive changes in your life and routines.

A very important ingredient in a successful healing plan is consulting with someone who has experience and who can guide you in your process. With the aid of a caring and understanding integration coach, you can make leaps in bounds in your healing goals and really set about the make the necessary changes that is needed in your life without unnecessary suffering.

Contact us for an informal free session with Angela O’Hara, shamanic coach.

About the
Venue and Teacher

Coming Home to Santuario…Santuario saturates the senses. Whether due to the heavy oxygenated air of the rainforest, the natural surround sound of birds and insect life that constantly reverberate the air– or the otherworldly beauty of the panoply of exotic trees and flowers, the ambience of Santuario Huistin is one of deep tranquility. In fact, one doesn’t simply visit Santuario Huistin, one becomes immersed and transformed by it. The jungle and ancient boiling river trigger memories in the human psyche of a primordial life on earth. The family are warm, caring and treat you like they have known you all their lives. When you visit Santuario, there is a common experience of familiarity, as if you had been there before—and are finally coming home again.Here at Santuario, the ancient visionary practices of Upper Amazonian "vegetalismo" (plant spirit shamanism) are carried on by Maestro healer Santiago Enrrique Melendez, his wife, Ayme and extended family. Whether you are interested in a personalized shamanic retreat of flexible length or heeding the call to mystery in a shamanic apprenticeship, Santuario is an ideal setting for a longer term immersion with the plant teachers. With over thirty years experience, Maestro Santiago has developed a profound wisdom of not only working with Ayahuasca but of the potential of the thousands of plant medicines in the rainforest to heal disease.Some brief excerpts of our testimonials on Trip Advisor!"WOW! Such a powerful shaman ! The Maestro and his family are so caring and loving people. They make you feel like at home. This place is magic and so beautiful! Attilo, D."Santuario Healing provides a unique experience like no other! It is an otherworldly life changing experience set deep within the jungle near a boiling volcanic river." Melanie, M.“Amazing place! True healing can happen here!” Rasa, C.Come and experience the magic!

Angela O’Hara Angela O’Hara BDES, MA, PHD-ABD Angela O’Hara has dedicated the last eight years of her life to researching the art, culture, and medicine of the Upper Amazon of the Peru. An artist, author, and professor of communication and culture, she has focused her fieldwork on the traditional wisdom and creative practices of indigenous peoples of the Upper Amazon. She came first to Pucallpa to write about the community of visionary artists in Pucallpa and encountered vegetalismo, the syncretic cosmology of mestizo shamanism. This interest lead her to further continue her fieldwork and research at Santuario Huishtin and to observe into the enormous growth of interest in Amazonian plant medicines by foreigners in what has become known by some as “ayahuasca tourism” (or what she terms “participatory travel.”) Over time, she has developed many deep insights into the intercultural dynamics (the dark and the light side) of this unique medicine path. In addition to her research, Angela O’Hara is also a shamanic coach trained with the Institute of Shamanic Medicine in Toronto, a knowledge path that integrates First Nations traditions and shamanic practices. From this training, she has specialized in the area of creativity and started her own…

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